Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay

by Ben Katchor

Book Overview

"Twenty-five years on, Cheap Novelties'] observations of what is lost as cityscapes evolve and shift due to gentrification and changing demographics are still fresh and relevant."--The Guardian

Cheap Novelties is an early testament to Ben Katchor's extraordinary prescience as both a gifted cartoonist and an astute urban chronicler. Rumpled, middle-aged Julius Knipl photographs a vanishing city--an urban...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770462635
• ISBN13: 9781770462632
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.9" x 8.6"